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Jan 14, 2025

China considers selling TikTok U.S. operations to Musk, Bloomberg reports

Posted by in categories: business, Elon Musk, government, internet, law

The Chinese government is considering a plan that would have Elon Musk acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations to keep the app from being effectively banned, Bloomberg News reported Monday.

The contingency plan is one of several options China is exploring as the U.S. Supreme Court determines whether to uphold a law that calls for China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. business by Jan. 19, the report said, citing anonymous sources.

After that deadline, third-party internet service providers would be penalized for supporting TikTok’s operations in the country.

Jan 14, 2025

A Guide to Managing Interconnected AI Systems

Posted by in categories: business, finance, governance, law, robotics/AI

Increasingly, AI systems are interconnected, which is generating new complexities and risks. Managing these ecosystems effectively requires comprehensive training, designing technological infrastructures and processes so they foster collaboration, and robust governance frameworks. Examples from healthcare, financial services, and legal profession illustrate the challenges and ways to overcome them.

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The risks and complexities of these ecosystems require specific training, infrastructure, and governance.

Jan 14, 2025

Speed Unleashed: How a Tiny Quantum Switch Is Supercharging Data Centers

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, computing, education, law, quantum physics

Researchers at the university of pennsylvania.

The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) is a prestigious private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1740 by Benjamin Franklin, Penn is one of the oldest universities in the United States. It is renowned for its strong emphasis on interdisciplinary education and its professional schools, including the Wharton School, one of the leading business schools globally. The university offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs across various fields such as law, medicine, engineering, and arts and sciences. Penn is also known for its significant contributions to research, innovative teaching methods, and active campus life, making it a hub of academic and extracurricular activity.

Jan 14, 2025

False Memories Under Fire: Surprising Science Behind What We Really Recall

Posted by in categories: law, science

New research challenges the ease of implanting false memories, highlighting flaws in the influential “Lost in the Mall” study.

By reexamining the data from a previous study, researchers found that many supposed false memories might actually be based on real experiences, casting doubt on the use of such studies in legal contexts.

Reevaluating the “Lost in the Mall” Study.

Dec 24, 2024

Toward a Second Law for Living Systems

Posted by in categories: biological, law, physics

A new theory related to the second law of thermodynamics describes the motion of active biological systems ranging from migrating cells to traveling birds.

In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published the book What is life? [1]. Therein, he reasoned about the origin of living systems by using methods of statistical physics. He argued that organisms form ordered states far from thermal equilibrium by minimizing their own disorder. In physical terms, disorder corresponds to positive entropy. Schrödinger thus concluded: “What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy […] freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive.” This statement poses the question of whether the second law of thermodynamics is valid for living systems. Now Benjamin Sorkin at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and colleagues have considered the problem of entropy production in living systems by putting forward a generalization of the second law [2].

Dec 23, 2024

Legal News, Analysis, & Commentary

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, computing, law

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have developed a new approach, which combines advanced screening techniques with computational modeling, to significantly shorten the drug discovery process. It has the potential to transform the pharmaceutical industry.

The research, published recently in Science Advances, represents a significant leap forward in drug discovery efficiency. It was featured on LegalReader.com.

https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2024/09/uc-college-of-medic…aster.html

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Dec 18, 2024

UK plans to favour AI firms over creators with a new copyright regime

Posted by in categories: law, robotics/AI

One of the biggest uncertainties in the ongoing AI revolution is whether these systems can legally be trained on copyrighted data. Now, the UK says it plans to clarify the matter with a change to the law.

By Chris Stokel-Walker

Dec 12, 2024

Ben Goertzel: AGI, SingularityNET and Decentralized AI

Posted by in categories: blockchains, business, law, robotics/AI, singularity

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Dec 10, 2024

Time to shift from artificial intelligence to artificial integrity

Posted by in categories: ethics, law, robotics/AI

There are contexts where human cognitive and emotional intelligence takes precedence over AI, which serves a supporting role in decision-making without overriding human judgment. Here, AI “protects” human cognitive processes from things like bias, heuristic thinking, or decision-making that activates the brain’s reward system and leads to incoherent or skewed results. In the human-first mode, artificial integrity can assist judicial processes by analyzing previous law cases and outcomes, for instance, without substituting a judge’s moral and ethical reasoning. For this to work well, the AI system would also have to show how it arrives at different conclusions and recommendations, considering any cultural context or values that apply differently across different regions or legal systems.

4 – Fusion Mode:

Artificial integrity in this mode is a synergy between human intelligence and AI capabilities combining the best of both worlds. Autonomous vehicles operating in Fusion Mode would have AI managing the vehicle’s operations, such as speed, navigation, and obstacle avoidance, while human oversight, potentially through emerging technologies like Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), would offer real-time input on complex ethical dilemmas. For instance, in unavoidable crash situations, a BCI could enable direct communication between the human brain and AI, allowing ethical decision-making to occur in real-time, and blending AI’s precision with human moral reasoning. These kinds of advanced integrations between humans and machines will require artificial integrity at the highest level of maturity: artificial integrity would ensure not only technical excellence but ethical robustness, to guard against any exploitation or manipulation of neural data as it prioritizes human safety and autonomy.

Dec 10, 2024

Robert Stone & Dr. Marcel van den Brink — City of Hope — Innovative, Compassionate Accessible Care

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, evolution, health, law, policy

Delivering Innovative, Compassionate And Accessible Patient Care — Robert Stone, CEO — City of Hope & Dr. Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD, President, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center.


Robert Stone is the CEO of City of Hope (https://www.cityofhope.org/robert-stone), a premier cancer research and treatment center dedicated to innovation in biomedical science and the delivery of compassionate, world-class patient care. A seasoned health care executive, he has served in a number of strategic decision-making roles since he joined City of Hope in 1996, culminating with his appointment as president in 2012, CEO in 2014, and as the Helen and Morgan Chu Chief Executive Officer Distinguished Chair in 2021.

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